Turkey deployed additional troops and armored vehicles along the borders with Iraq on Wednesday to prevent the infiltration of the banned Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)as the ground operation against the terrorist group in Iraq's north continues, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Helicopter gunships escorted buses carrying troops and military vehicles heading for the Iraqi border, according to the report.
Meanwhile, Turkish Armed Forces is successfully pursuing its cross-border ground operations against the PKK in the north of Iraq.
Turkish warplanes are bombing hide-outs of PKK terrorists in mountainous area in Siladze region to neutralize terrorists and destroy the organization's infrastructure in the region, said the military.
Turkish Armed Forces announced Wednesday that 77 PKK militants of were killed on the 6th day of cross-border ground operation in the north of Iraq, which started last Thursday.
In a statement posted on its website Wednesday, the General Staff said that Tuesday's clashes have brought the guerrilla death toll to 230 since the beginning of the cross-border operations.
Meanwhile, five Turkish soldiers and three village guards were also killed in the operation, added the statement.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in the southeast of the country. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
Source: Xinhua
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